Ravens croaked hoarsely amidst the verdant foliage of the trees.
The wedding cry of the ravens echoed through the autumnal stillness that hung broodingly over the Steppe.
The sated crows and ravensalone croak his praises from full maws, for they grew fat on the unburied corses of those whose dwellings he had burned and whose homesteads he had laid waste!
And spirit ravensround them fill the air, And see!
This part of the subject naturally leads to certain passages in which the feeding of the young Ravens is mentioned.
Pelican and hedgehog (Kippod) shall possess it; owls also and ravens shall dwell in it; and he shall stretch over it the line of desolation, and the stones of emptiness.
And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening, and he drank of the brook.
And in the Psalms: 'Who giveth their own food to the cattle, and to the young ravensthat call upon Him.
The same manoeuvre was repeated with equal success on another evening; but on the third occasion the ravens had learned wisdom by experience, and, sweeping round Siloam, chose another route to their dormitory.
And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens [orebim] to feed thee there.
If any one who is passing over a part of the country where Ravens still survive, should wish to see one of the birds, he has only to lie flat on the ground, and keep his eyes nearly shut, so as only to see through the lashes.
As, moreover, the bird was thought to be peculiarly late in attaining its plumage, the young Ravens must all die of hunger, were they not fed in some remarkable manner.
For a certain annotator saith, that the young ravenswhile as yet they are unfledged do appear of whiteness, and therefore are neglected of their parents as if they were bastards, seeing that they resemble not their colour.
The eye that mocketh at his father and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
He giveth to the beast his food, and to the youngravens which cry.
What heavy guilt upon him lies, How cursed is his name, The Ravensshall pick out his eyes, And Eagles eat the same.
Ravens and magpies winged toward the spot,--and Breed set off at once toward the converging lines of their flight.
Magpies and ravens flitted about, waiting for their share of the feast.
There was a man standing alone in a field and trying to beat off a flock of ravens that were swooping down and pecking at his eyes.
She and the foal are turned into ravens and are perched in yonder tall fir tree hiding among my folk.
He marked the spot where he had been lying when the ravens spoke and the next day came back and dug.
Illustration: The Tsar of the Snakes Listened Carefully] Just then two ravens alighted on the tree above his head.
The ravens flew off and the shepherd sat up and rubbed his eyes to make sure he was awake.
The man at whose eyes the ravens peck was an ungrateful son who mistreated his parents.
After about two miles of walking against a delightful strong breeze, we reached the animals; Ravens or Buzzards had worked at the eyes, but only one Wolf, apparently, had been there.
But it was no tree he leant against, but a gallows on which two ravens were seated.
But the Prince, who was sorry for the poor bird, seized the branch of a tree and hit out at the ravens with it; terrified at this unexpected onslaught they flew away, leaving many of their number dead or wounded on the battlefield.
Maybe they'll scare the crows and ravens away from our fish.
We can leave them plenty of food, and put a few boards together so that they can get under in case the crows or ravens should attack them.
All along the creek crows and ravenswere flying in great flocks.
You may guess that when the servant understood the talk of the ravens he was not slow in making use of what he heard.
As the servant sat there, there came tworavens flying, and lit upon the cross-beam overhead.
The Ravens took possession, and, when Prince Eugene arrived, he found the Austrian flag waving from the towers, and that of Savoy streaming above the gates.
Nothing checked their advance, for the Ravens had carried every thing before them.
General," said Caspar, "give the word, and let your Ravens fly.
They shall be taken," was the reply, and in a few moments the Ravens had flown, and were no longer to be seen.
But he belongs to a higher order; for while theravens are scavengers, the coyote is a hunter as well.
As he approaches, with tail drooping and ears erect, and stops to sniff the air and glance about slyly, the ravens hop off sidewise away from the dangerous neighbour.
To this exhibition of animal life the ravens pay no attention whatever.
Two ravens stalk about in an earnest, dignified manner.
The ice-bird twittered by the frozen brook, and the ravens sought the cover of the forest.
Great blocks of ice went floating by withravens perched upon them; and when one of their rafts cracked and broke to pieces, the ravens flew up and perched upon another.
The ravens flew across the valley and over the mountains, past a humble cottage where sat an old woman at the window, spinning coarse yarn, while big tears rolled down her withered cheeks upon the threads she spun.
The ravens that now flew past her window might have told Franzl to dry her tears, for the buried family was saved.
And first he crossed a wide sea of lava dust, black as the ravens that flew in the air above it, and bounded by hills as dark as the earth that were themselves vast sand drifts blown up into strange and terrible shapes by mighty tempests.
The great red-backed shrike flew in alarm--his nest was destroyed; the ravens and all the other birds had lost their homes, and flew wildly about with cries of distress and anger.
Then came ravens and crows, all as black as they could be, in large flocks.
Taken apart from dogmatic assertions which are themselves unproven or disproved, the evidence that ravens daily fed Elijah is wholly inadequate to sustain the burden laid upon it.
Ravens haunt the lonely, inaccessible cliffs among which Elijah found his place of refuge.
Elijah drank of the brook, and God "had commanded the ravens to feed him there.
The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the brook shall pick it out, and the young vultures shall eat it.
At once the ravens were discarded, And magpies with their posts rewarded.
Beneath a venerable yew, That in the lonely church-yard grew, Two ravens sat.
With due respect to human race, The ravens undertook the case.
And the knight returned back towards the strife, and the Ravens were not forbidden any more than before.
And the youth saluted Arthur, and told him that the Ravens of Owain were slaying his young men and attendants.
He had in his hand a blue-shafted lance, but from the haft to the point it was stained crimson-red with the blood of the Ravens and their plumage.
Then Rhonabwy inquired of Iddawc who were the first three men that came to Owain, to tell him his Ravens were being slain.
And thenceforward Owain dwelt at Arthur's Court greatly beloved, as the head of his household, until he went away with his followers; and those were the army of three hundred ravens which Kenverchyn had left him.
Who," said Rhonabwy, "were the last three men who came to Arthur, and told him that the Ravens were slaughtering his men?
Wrathfully came the knight to the place where Arthur was, and he told him that the Ravens had slain his household and the sons of the chief men of this island, and he besought him to cause Owain to forbid his Ravens.
And the ravenscame round it from all parts of the heaven, and the vultures with the dead eyes and dull scream.
Then paused she at one chamber; for a breath Listened: and here her son Sir Ewain slept, He who of ravens a black army kept, In war than fiercest men more terrible, That tore forth eyes of kings who blinded fell.
Even with an iron host to seal his doom; If he be not departed over seas, Hang naked from his battlements to please Of carrion ravens and wild hawks the craws.
In Scotland there still linger curious folk beliefs regarding the appearance of ravens and doves after death.
If the ravens were first the body was to be burned, but if the doves were first it was to receive Christian burial.
Withal they drank blood like ravens and devoured corpses like hyaenas.
Of special interest are the references in Sumerian psalms to the ravens as well as the doves of goddesses.
Throughout Asia and Europe ravensare birds of ill omen.
Three ravens and three doves would be seen flying towards it.
The ravenswere foremost, but in their hurry flew beyond their mark.
Two ravens flew high, high in the sky, and the sun shone upon their bellies and their wings, long after there was none of his light to be seen but a little space on the top of Loughrigg Fell.
The crows and the ravens were busy, and the thrushes and little birds sang.
If there are twa mouths to fill," she said, "the ravenswill ha'e to fly into the wilderness a wee oftener.
The Lord that sent theravens to Elijah has spread for me a table in the wilderness and my cup runneth over.
And there thou shalt drink of the torrent: and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.
The eye that mocketh at his father, and that despiseth the labour of his mother in bearing him, let the ravens of the brooks pick it out, and the young eagles eat it.
And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the torrent.
Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that call upon him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ravens" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
